Travel to Linz

By plane:

Linz has an international airport
(LNZ) with
connections to Barcelona (Girona), Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Graz, Cologne, London, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Salzburg, Vienna, and Zürich (summer flights 2008).
From the Linz airport you can take
a bus to the center of Linz (see the schedule here,
connection from Flughafen LNZ to Linz. Note that on Sundays the connection is not so good.), or a taxi. Another
alternative is train:
Take a free shuttle from the airport to Hoersching train station and then get to Linz
from there by train.
Other international airports nearby Linz are Vienna
(VIE, 2 hours by train/car) and
Munich (MUC, 3 hours by train/car).

By train:

Linz can also be conveniently reached by train from Vienna, Salzburg, or Munich
(Train connections can be looked up using the
Travel Planner).

Travel to Hagenberg

Shuttle service will be provided from the hotels in Linz to RISC.

By bus:

Schedule of buses from Linz to Hagenberg and back can be found
here. Select Hagenberg im Mülkreis Ortsmitte. The bus No.310
leaves from the platform C of Linz bus station, that is located next to Linz main train
station, Linz Hauptbahnhof. The bus passes near the hotel Arcotel (bus stop Untere Donaulände, in front
of the Lentos Museum) and not very far from Hotel Sommerhaus Linz (bus stop Altenbergerstraße).
When in Hagenberg, leave the bus at the stop in front of the school
(Volksschule) and walk 100 m towards the church/castle to get to RISC, or 300 m on the street and then turn left to get to Hotel Sommerhaus.
(See the directions on the map of Hagenberg.)
You can download the bus timetable Linz-Hagenberg-Linz from here.

By train:

((Train connections can be looked up using the
Travel Planner).
From Linz main train station (Linz Hauptbahnhof) take a train to Pregarten (Pregarten Bahnhof).
From Pregarten train station take a small white bus, number 396, to Hagenberg (The schedule
of this bus can be found here. Select
Hagenberg im Mülkreis Ortsmitte). Leave the bus at
the stop Hagenberg Ort (in front of the school, Volksschule) and walk 100 m towards the church/castle to get to RISC,
or 300 m on the street and then turn left to get to Hotel Sommerhaus. (See the directions on the
map of Hagenberg.)
One can also walk from Pregarten to Hagenberg. The distance is
approximately 2 km.
You can download the train timetable Linz-Pregarten-Linz from here.

By car:

Take the highway (Autobahn) to Linz, and there take the
highway A7 to Prague (Prag in German). About 15km outside of Linz the Autobahn ends. Go
to the direction of Pregarten. About 1km before Pregarten you see the sign
to Hagenberg (to the left).

More Information:

Hagenberg map with restaurants and ATM machines. Note that the ATM machines in Hagenberg operate between 06:00-24:00
and accept only Maestro and Mastercard.